Do you agree the more educated you are the more likely you are to be brainwash with liberal teachings?

Question

Most college lecturers are of liberal inclination and tend to pass off their political belief onto their students during college. Liberal indoctrination is even started as early as high school. Do you believe the more educated (aka staying in school base system to be brainwash), the higher you are to come out as a liberal?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

100%.

The main reason for this is that the education system is run by and filled with midwits, like the girl in the video. That video perfectly illustrates the mentality of the midwit.

When I say midwit I mean people who are of above-average intelligence, but who are not highly intelligent, although they like to think that they are and really like others to think that they are.

Beyond a certain level of intelligence, there seems to be a trade-off between the ability to solve logical problems and the ability to systematise vs social skills. Most highly intelligent people are at least slightly autistic, whereas midwits usually are not.

Autistic people tend not to care a lot about popularity or status, instead they tend only to care about true vs false, regardless of whether or not people get offended. Also as a result of their lack of social skills they're assumed to be unintelligent by many people. The midwit girl placed the guy who was more intelligent than she was last for this reason.

Midwits on the other hand are status-driven. Since they're socially intelligent, they figure out what the dominant culture is or most popular beliefs in order not to offend the wrong people and get cancelled. This is why they run the education system today.

Some will do so dishonestly, only pretending to believe in such things. Others will, because they are quite intelligent and intelligent people are able to rationalise almost anything, convince themselves that those beliefs are correct. The dominant culture today is liberal.

Another reason that they do this is that while they're intelligent, they're not intelligent enough to make sense of things themselves. They're almost incapable of original thought. Thus they listen to people who they view as being equally intelligent or more intelligent than they are, and then simply adopt the same beliefs and make the same arguments, or they tend to appeal to authority. These are the types of people who'd say something as stupid as "how do you know that's a man or a woman? Are you a biologist?"

Basically, the education system is a bunch of midwits teaching other midwits liberal nonsense, while they all believe that they're a lot more intelligent than they actually are, despite many of them being unable to find a job in their chosen field once they graduate, while having to pay thousands in student loan debt. Meanwhile, many people who are less educated than they are, the people they look down on and assume are stupid, might do a lot better than they do.

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

I’d say going to college exposes you to a lot more of the world and new ideas. If you don’t go to college and just stay in your hometown/local area, I don’t think you get that same exposure, you’re limited to just whatever your predominant local culture is. (Yes, I know people can go to college in their local areas, lmao, that’s a bit of an exception, but they likely will be exposed to others from outside of the area.)

I mean, I was a History major at a supposedly liberal school in a supposedly liberal state, but outside of maybe a few Sociology classes, I wouldn’t say anything was taught to me in a fashion that would warrant any reasonable objection from any reasonable conservative. And look, anything supposedly “liberal” that I took away from any lecture was by CHOICE. I took in the facts and opinions I was presented, mulled them over for a while, decided what I thought did or didn’t make sense, or whatever nuance in between, and I consider myself more worldly than I was before for having heard and considered all of it, whatever I accepted or rejected. And it’s ever-evolving as I live and witness and experience and learn more. And I know people who came into college conservative and left that way, but I still feel like they grew and understood people of opposing viewpoints better.

I don’t know, I don’t mean to say someone is unequivocally “better” if they’ve been to college than someone who hasn’t…. lord knows I’d just learn to fix cars or refrigeration units or something if I could do it all over again lmao. In today’s world, you can self-educate a lot more easily if you choose to. It’s fair to say that ignorance is a choice now more than ever before. So there’s a way around it, but hopefully you could understand where there’s a higher likelihood of just getting caught up in believing whatever your native locale believes is the truth and the ONLY truth, and not at least hearing other ideas or experiencing a different area’s culture, or perhaps just learning second hand by someone you meet at school. It’s not just what you’re taught in the classroom, it’s the relationships you have with new and different people, and just seeing that your way isn’t the ONLY way, or the RIGHT way. That doesn’t mean your way can’t be right for you, it’s just allow others to have their ways, however different they may be from yours.

whirled_up_girl · Accepted Answer

I think that depends on what you mean by more education. For instance doctors and surgeons etc. require more formal education than somebody like me who is a registered nurse. Although I’ve met plenty of doctors and surgeons that are very conservative, some of them moderates and obviously a few of them are liberal. So kind of depends on what kind of education it is.

Seinna · Accepted Answer

Yes - speaking as an educated woman. I had to unlearn many things I was lead to believe while in college and it wasn't easy. Definitely not encouraged by my environment and made me a bit of an outcast compared to my colleagues (I work in science). Now to top it all of, I'm not sure if the things I was taught are even true.

Lliam · Answer

The entire education system has been run by liberals for years. The indoctrination starts early.

I'm not sure that the more education you have, the more likely you are to be 'turned' liberal. I do believe that most people who graduate from college with bachelor's, master's or even PhD's tend to be liberal. But many are not.

I think the problem is, they are all mainstream. They are taught what the system wants them to know. They learn obedience and are not taught to think for themselves. Plus, the higher they go, the more their education is focused on a specific specialty.

I find that most highly educated people know as much about the world as the average person. Why? Because the consume mainstream media for their information and they trust the system.

The problem with educated people is, they think they are smart because they got a degree. Therefore, you can't tell them anything. They are smug and think they are smarter than everyone else. They don't think you could possibly know more about anything than they do.

I know smart people with PhD's and multiple degrees who get all their information from mainstream media and won't even look at anything else. They know NOTHING about the real world. They are in the matrix.

I don't think conservatives are smart, either. Only those who ask questions and seek truth beyond the walls that have been constructed are truly smart.

Miristheiss · Answer

Well, I hear it happens with tons of students in the "liberal arts" branch of colleges.

If you have a more "real world" STEM type of study... chemist, mathematician, scientist, engineer, doctor, nursing field of study then I hear you are getting real world studies and training and you are pretty clear of the psycho left, activist, theory world and all of their "issues" they bitch about.

If you are taking women's studies, gay/lesbian studies, black studies... etc. and live in the liberal arts wing. Chances are they'll have you hating everything and everybody and wanting society to just burn down and you'll want the country to go down in flames with them cheering on. They don't live in the present and don't realize how much progress and blessing our society has gone through and how lucky they are and what great opportunities they've had.

They should go live in North Korea, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Haiti, Burma... or some war ravaged country for about 5 years and then come home and tell us how evil and bad the USA is while they live in the bubble world of a college campus life that mommy and daddy pay for.

ANDYB88 · Answer

No I don’t agree with this at all. University education encourages free thinking / critical thinking - it isn’t a case of ‘repeat these mantras’. Lecturers actively promote critical commentary on their own research - it makes them better academics.
The idea that there are this homogeneous group of brainwashed liberals is appealing to you because you have realised that you have opinions that a large group of educated people have INDEPENDENTLY listened to and disagreed with. It’s threatening to you that those with intellect think you are basically wrong. So you’ve dismissed their opinion as some homogeneous brainwashing rather than do the actual hard work of examining your own thinking.
It’s obvious from your question that you haven’t had the privilege of a higher education - this could be for many reasons, it doesn’t necessarily reflect ability and I’m sorry for you that you haven’t experienced that. Education at a higher level actively encourages critical thinking - had you been lucky enough to experience that, you would already be able to answer your question.
Sorry that so many educated people disagree with your ‘insights’. I would guess that there is more to this than the lazy bleating of the ‘sheeple’. Likelihood is your opinions are wrong. Sorry, but there it is.

Msputiton · Answer

True, you are more likely to be liberal.

But honestly it's because you are able to meet more people be exposed to more diversity of how people are.

The people you are taught are evil or wrong ends up showing you that they are no different from you.

Having new life experiences and learning things from people who actually understand how the world works instead of how their local community works.

Basically if you are sheltered to only see people who are just like you, your mind will be closed and can't understand when something new is exposed to you.

aided_ · Answer

I love that video so much
not anything to do with the liberal brain washing stuff you're on about
but because it just proves the point I always like to make (at my own expense)
just bc i have good grades doesn't mean im more intelligent than my friends, i think im probably the least intelligent
but on the actual topic, there is a correlation between higher education and liberal views
whether that means that higher education makes you more susceptible to brain washing or not i really couldnt tell you

lightbulb27 · Answer

not sure, possible.
I wonder if "those types" are people who can't really function in the real world... business, risk and such, so they hide out in education setting.

there is a difference between theory and application, engineering and technician. Some people can only get as far as complaining, others learn to embrace and solve problems.

A simple solution is to require professors to work a real job for some period of time. The system as it is, may be quite dangerous if you are right. I've always valued teachers who were real world, they had jobs and taught in their field. Most of my professors had real world experience and only taught part time.

BeMuse · Answer

None of my professors were every political. When I taught, I also never spoke of politics. The only political person I can think of in all of my education was my political science teacher in high school, and that was their job description. Some people are unprofessional and don't know how to stick to their subject matter I suppose however I never witnessed that personally. That doesn't have anything to do with education in itself, it has to do with people being bad at their job. That said, you should probably go study liberalism, and stop labeling progressivism, socialism (communism, social democracy), etc. as liberalism. If you did, you'd probably agree with 99% of it being that America was founded on Liberalism and that is the foundation of the majority of conservative beliefs.

DaveJord · Answer

Truly educated people should be more likely to use reason to exercise their own free will in self determination. The problem is that there are some really smart stupid people in the world and some seriously educated dumb people.

But the real issue is the difference between ignorant and stupid people. Ignorant means lacking knowledge. Stupid means lacking brainpower. Educated people can at least say they are not lacking is some knowledge, but nothing stops them from being stupid. Where as uneducated people will always be ignorant of the fact they are missing some degree of knowledge.

HighValue · Answer

It is also in elementary schools too.
Educated and a college degree don't necessarily mean the same thing anymore. Some of the most illogical and ignorant people I have known had college degrees, while some other people I have known were much more intelligent and logical than the ones with college degrees.

Actually, having worked in schools for 12 years, I can say that more of the bus drivers I used to work with were intelligent than the majority of the teachers I have met after switching careers.

Creampiekarl420 · Answer

I believe this is the case with higher education as someone who reads a lot and has several library cards, the internet and Amazon prime audible books i never saw a reason to go to college why would I pay to learn something knowledge is free people go to college just to say oh I have a degree whoopty doo like it’s an official smart person card I don’t think I’m smart at all my siblings went to college with their degrees and I make way more money than them because I have more world experience I know more than them

Phoenix-gb · Answer

I'm saying no as it's not brainwashing but a genuine understanding of the world around you and a greater confidence in challenging broken systems that are in place just because 'that's the way they've always been' which is the root of conservativism (to maintain the status quo). Humans change, societies change and the systems that manage those societies also need to change and adapt which is impossible with a conservative dogmatic attitude.

zeitgeist057 · Answer

Absolutely. Your chosen nomenclature "be brainwash (sic)" is stigmatic, but the truth remains, the more well rounded a person's education, the more likely they are to tend towards a liberal mindset. Conversely, ignorance and a smaller amount of education and exposure to world culture, lends itself to more conservative perspectives.

hahahmm · Answer

This only happens to people who weren't taught much by their parents. They are a blank slate. Also brainwashing in schools starts in kindergarten. To some degree 100% of people who have gone to any school were brainwashed by the system. It's just less obvious to themselves. A typical conservative today wouldn't be considered that by conservatives living 100 years ago.

knallpilz · Answer

The more educated you are the less likely you're gonna be to be brainwashed, I think.

The more indoctrinated you already are the more likely you're gonna be to be indoctrinated further.

Education is about being educated. Not having degrees or having memorized factoids or methods.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

No it varies.

for example in the UK there is a high number of very left wing people within the Teaching profession, anything but liberal.

Also ideally you want kids taught by people with no real political view point, sitting in the centre ground.

Last thing we need are people on the right and left involved with teaching.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

I reckon the reason so many lecturers and teachers are of that view is because they are unable to make money for themselves.

Ever wondered how many of them have failed businesses?

Those who make proper money being self employed usually end up voting Conservative / Republican (US)

Anonymous · Answer

By that estimation, you are saying that conservatives are pretty much dumbasses that don’t know how to do shit… lol you dissed conservatives by trying to diss liberals!! Good job 👏. Lol no, I don’t think that at all. I think you have the concept of education all wrong. Educations just about how much information you soak up. It’s about deciphering what information is good and truth and what is not, where to get your information (through credible sources, and how much of it is needed to form a educated conclusion. That’s education 101. But you would know that if you were an educated liberal, not a dumbass conservative… (sarcasm)
Grow up, you and people like you are why this country continues to stay divided. Be better.

crossdressingrihno · Answer

I am somewhat fresh out of high school and yeah they definitely are preaching a lot of liberal ideas and propaganda is definitely everywhere despite the fact that I don't think they're allowed to do that but hey who cares anymore rules don't matter

In all seriousness yeah that's kind of an issue

t-8900 · Answer

Not if they went to private or charter schools where a teacher's opinions and personal politics rarely get drilled into a child, unfairly so. Tbh the law pushed in Florida should be nationwide and not only that but for teachers to not be able to share political views allowing these children to grow up a clean slate to decide for themselves what they agree with and draw their own conclusions in life

Heartache0405 · Answer

Depends on the type of education you're going for. But yes, most colleges and universities attempt to lead you to a liberal way of thinking and in turn a democratic leftist view of the world and others. Explains why majority of women are dumbass bitch ass sensitive liberals barking at people wearing crosses around their necks as if they're possessed by a demon. And claiming that they have "White privilege" 🙄 this shit is why I stopped going to college/university and just got a simple 9 to 5 job

little_rose · Answer

Omg I've seen that video lmao

I HATE that woman. So arrogant!!

I honestly think that education doesn't say much about a person's intelligence. I've known highly educated people who were complete assholes (almost lunatics) and people who haven't been to school much who are the most logical, creative, humble people I've ever met.

I just hate how society stigmatises people who haven't stayed in school for a long time.

Stupidsigninpage · Answer

I think if you're educated and not smart, you are likely to be a liberal.

If you're educated and very smart, you're likely to be a centrist, with controversial beliefs from both sides.

A lot of smart people tend to hold unorthodox, contrarian views, and many liberals now operate like a hivemind.

Education does not equal intelligence.

exitseven · Answer

It does seem that way. I work in higher ed ans know plenty of PhDs that are liberal moonbats. They do not seem to have a lick of common sense. A lot of them really believe that global warming is real and that BLM is not a terrorist organization run by a bunch of crooks.

Anonymous · Answer

The people running our schools seem to be more focused upon cherry picking information to push their agenda than actually giving people valuable skills at a reasonable price in money and time.

Many if not most schools go soo far in their ideological goals they actually create a hostile environment for people who don't tow the line, driving more and more of them to drop out.

legalboxers · Answer

oh.. poor feckless tawt blue Anon.. Who would you want to teach? Don Jr? Kellyann Cuntway? Don Himself? 2nd Amendment is good! But only for White People.. Black people are all bad.. They are all criminals. Anyone by the southern border are drug dealers. NATO is Horrible. The UN Is HORRIBLE. America Only. Make America WHITE AGAIN. Douchebag

Kiss_Me · Answer

I fully support education every day of the week, but you have to claw through classes that literally push the liberal agenda. Unfortunately, this means the more educated you are the more you have been indoctrinated.

Anonymous · Answer

Other way around. Unless you are prone to liberal cultism, you'll be weeded out of the educational system. And then they get to claim that liberals are smarter because they're more educated.

I got through the system by letting them think I'm liberal, even though I'm independent.

Nata2496 · Answer

In western campuses, I've heard this is definitely the case. I don't know if it's true here but certainly I think more traditional, non-liberal women will marry younger so won't be as 'educated'.

purplepoppy · Answer

So your saying right-wing people are right because they're uneducated?

Curmudgeon · Answer

Well, the more "educated" you are, sadly yes the more indoctrinated, but the more TRULY educated you are, no. You need to be taught how to think, not just told what to think.

jestergent · Answer

I'm a student, the answer is yes. Also you risk a higher chance of having low grades if you state an argument that doesn't flow with narrative. The education itself is good , you learn a lot about things.

HighlyVolatile · Answer

Not so much if "more" means a broader range of subjects being studied because what's taught in those sociology courses tend to be largely contradicted by biology, economics, psychology, history, etc.

Bratsondanielle · Answer

The higher iq the less chances of being infected with liberalism

BeenThereLovedIt · Answer

Ideals are the pillar of education. There's positive ideals and negative ideals.  Can you specify which ideal taught in a classroom has an apparent negative effect on society?

Sixgunsound · Answer

As someone in American academia I can confirm this question is legitimate, and the amount of left leaning bias is staggering for a space that prides itself on free thought and free exchange of ideas.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

It depends on what you mean by 'educated". If you believe all the brainwashing you got in your school years, yes. If you mean, you've found out what's REALLY going in the world, no!

libsaretards · Answer

There is a difference between education and indoctrination. Education is the free flow of knowledge without personal agenda attached. What happens in college is indoctrination, not education.

sp33d · Answer

Can't speak for non-STEM fields, but for STEM, analysis is central. So, brainwashing is difficult and, as far as I know, not even a goal.

And no, disagree entirely. Would you consider your brainwashed with anti-establishment doctrine?

genericname85 · Answer

Having a degree in the humanities, i do not believe this. I actually know that is the case for a fact. Though it's not that extreme in engineering for example.

notwoke · Answer

Most people come out of college at their "most liberal" and become more conservative as they get more real world experience. I know many people who were ardent liberals at 20 who are very conservative at 50

lrina · Answer

ehh not necessarily, it depends on a lot of factors

Anonymous · Answer

I suppose you could be correct considering the less educated you are, the more likely you are to be brainwashed with religious teachings.

Subarugirl · Answer

Actually the more educated a person is the more likely they are to have more liberal ideals... Especially in the medical community

True_Sage · Answer

Looks like the guys can see the truth on this so far. It's a scam. You're being brainwashed. I'm a prof in psych at uni and I can't even stomach it anymore. It should be criminal. We need a new system

fanblow313 · Answer

Yes, but it’s not because of brainwashing. It’s because people who tend towards rational thinking have to be somewhere on the left. Right-wingers are stupid. They believe conspiracy theories, reject obvious facts, and follow their feelings.

zagor · Answer

Most students I knew in college were bright enough not to be indoctrinated by some professor. Maybe today's students aren't as sharp...

DARKCLOUD1945X · Answer

College how about grades k through 8 it is taught in NYC public schools now along with everything about Alphabet people

OddBeMe · Answer

Yes. If brainwashing simply means understanding the smarter way of doing things. Your video should be related: “don’t think so hard”

Anonymous · Answer

There is a very liberal bias in colleges. Conservative political thought is really not tolerated.

anylolone · Answer

I wouldn't use the word "educated", but the longer you've been through the college grind, the more indoctrination you received.

LadiesFavoriteToy · Answer

Oh yes! Liberals would let a black man come in and rape their little 12 year old daughter if it meant not being called a racist.

msc545 · Answer

Most people with any empathy or intelligence are liberals. Conservatives are greedy, angry, scared people.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Overall, yes. The more gibberish indoctrination you have the more likely you end up an idiot liberal.

Cubus · Answer

Yes, stats show that people with higher education on average have more left-wing views.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

Been in college for 4 years and have never seen this so called “liberal indoctrination”

Dchrls78104 · Answer

Brainwashing people is not educating them, and a brainwashed person is not an educated one.

michael1469 · Answer

No, but i would agree if you are uneducated and live in nowhere usa... you are gonna be a republiclown asshat.

Anonymous · Answer

This question is already stupid. "Liberal" doesn't mean or have to be political. Are you inferring that people without education are more conservative and regressive to society?

Anonymous · Answer

Academia is extremely liberal, so it's not surprising.

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